# Why can't I see Star Trek? (VLC Media Player)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509 "2009-03-06T10:49:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Stan\_Shmenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/1 "2009-03-06T10:49:29Z")

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I am trying to view the New Voyages Star Trek episodes. I downloaded VLC media player, but all I get is audio. What gives?

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/2 "2009-03-06T11:12:26Z")

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You probably don’t have the right codec on your system – look for and download some codec collection like K-Lite Codec Pack, this should enable you to play basically all reasonably common video file types. But I’m not really sure what’s considered to be the ‘best’ pack these days.

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**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/3 "2009-03-06T11:21:43Z")

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Whoa. If VLC can’t, nothing will. Are these DVD’s?

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**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/4 "2009-03-06T11:43:13Z")

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I’ve had the same problem with VLC but only after I’d left the computer on for more than a day, doing defragmentation or virus checks. After a reboot, it was always OK.

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**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/5 "2009-03-06T12:55:59Z")

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VLC didn’t play video for some files I’ve downloaded, it seemed that changing screen resolution got around that problem.

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**Author:** ![II\_Gyan\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-see-star-trek-vlc-media-player/488509/6 "2009-03-06T13:22:57Z")

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[The KMPlayer](http://download.pandora.tv/?mode=kmp&tab=1) is more likely to play the file than VLC. The codecs come bundled.